Dobes Zone

House is an interesting film that I'd seen before but had not revisited in a while. Now that the film is on Blu Ray it felt like a good time to rewatch and take some screen caps of the paintings that feature in the film- some of which give little plot hints about the weird goings-on in the haunted house (though they're largely in the background for ambience more so than plot!) I'd always liked the weird surreal paintings and wanted to get a good look at them again. Roger Cobb is a Vietnam veteran and a horror novelist whose son went missing, causing his divorce. When the aunt who raised him commits suicide in her eerie old house, he returns to stay there and attempts to write a book recounting his experience in Vietnam. As we find out, the house itself and his past may have had a role in the disappearance of his son as strange creatures and phenomena appear. The film has a somewhat silly tone that cuts through the sadness of Roger's ordeal. We get a sense of his trauma

  I watched this film recently and wanted to write a small review and share some screencaps of the film.     The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020) is an interesting and at times darkly funny film. A recovering alcoholic cop with severe anger issues has to keep himself together while investigating a horrifying string of murders that seem to be perpetrated by a supernatural killer. He very much does not keep his shit together as more and more evidence seems to point towards a werewolf being the killer.     I really enjoyed how all the characters felt like real and flawed people. What I find especially done well is that our victims aren't just nameless one notes either, the film makes sure to give us little vignettes of who they are before they meet their gruesome end. It's not something I see often and it helps heighten this feeling of what's at stake and how it's affecting everyone around them. Not that I mind, of course, an exciting creature feature or slasher with a high and

      I'll be reviewing films I watched (like I do on my letterboxd occasionally) but I primarily want to share some pretty screenshots.      Around 2001 I saw the trailer for Brotherhood of the Wolf and being a child who was very much smitten with cool martial arts and action I asked my parents to see it. They deemed the movie too scary and violent and chose not to let me watch. I'd seen Alien, Species, Jaws, and Pitch Black by that point but it is likely that child me would have found this film tedious to sit through. It's slow and luscious in parts and quite an expansive story. Just as well I watched the film 20 years later.      In a lot of ways Brotherhood of the Wolf is very much its time period- it's a mashup of period piece, fantasy, and martial arts with the lusciousness of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). Two men, a knighted naturalist and his Iroquois companion, arrive in the province of Gevaudan with orders from the king to capture a terrible beast that